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Jewish-Romanian author and Holocaust survivor Norman Manea will give a talk at FIU titled “Patronage and the Exile Writer.”
The talk will examine the unique relationship of patrons and the exile. Manea, who was deported to a Ukranian concentration camp at the age of five, will draw upon personal experiences and conditions in contemporary university life.
The event is scheduled for 6:45 p.m., Feb. 23, in Graham Center (GC) 243. It is free and open to the public.
Manea was schooled in communist Romania and earned a degree in engineering. He was forced into exile in the late 1980s and came to the U.S. with a Fulbright scholarship at the Catholic University in Washington D.C. He is the first Romanian writer to be granted the MacArthur Fellowship and is a former Guggenheim fellow.
Manea has published more than 20 books, including novels, a memoir and a collection of essays on exile. He is currently a professor and writer in residence at Bard College in New York. Manea is also the current FIU/Betsy Exile Studies Writer in Residence.
The lecture is part of The Betsy-FIU/Exile Studies Program Writer in Residence Lecture. It is sponsored by the FIU Exile Studies Program in collaboration with the Department of English, Center for the Humanities, and The Betsy-South Beach Hotel.
Manea will also be a part of a panel discussion, “Teaching Exilic Literature.” It is scheduled for 3 p.m., Wed., Feb. 25 in Green Library (GL) 220. It is free and open to the public.
Jewish-Romanian author, Holocaust survivor and Bard College professor Norman Manea. Photo courtesy of worldvoices.pen.org.
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